In tennis, a golden set is a set which is won without losing a single point. This means scoring the 24 minimum points required to win the set 6–0, without conceding any points.

In professional tennis, this has occurred twice in the main draw of top-level events. It has also happened a number of times in the pre-tournament qualifiers of the lowest-level events. Bill Scanlon had a golden second set in his win over Marcos Hocevar at the 1983 Delray Beach WCT event. Yaroslava Shvedova had a golden first set in her win over Sara Errani at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships. Steffi Graf came close to achieving the feat in the finals of the 1989 Virginia Slims of Washington tournament, winning the first five games to love against Zina Garrison, before winning the match 6–1, 7–5. At the 2023 Western & Southern Open, Taylor Fritz won the first five games to love in his round of sixteen match before his opponent, Dusan Lajovic, retired.

A golden match is when a player does not lose a single point in the entire match. There are five documented cases of this at low-level events. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman did so in the 1910 Washington State Championships, defeating a Miss Huiskamp (first name unknown). Later it happened twice in France in the qualifiers of lowest-level professional events, two of them in the span of two months, both against the same 55-year-old man, Tomas Fabian. A golden match occurred in the qualifiers of an ITF Men's World Tennis Tour event in Doha in 2019, where Krittin Koaykul beat Artem Bahmet. Bahmet was a professional sports bettor who had entered the tournament without having played tennis before; his associate bet against him and won roughly €3,000.

List of occurrences

Key
WFSFQF#RRRQ#DNQANH

Main draws of top-level professional events are in boldface.

PlayerEventRoundOpponentFinal scoreDateNotes
United States Hazel Hotchkiss1910 Washington State Championships, Seattle, WashingtonSFUnited States Mrs. Huiskamp (first name unknown)6–0, 6–312 Aug 1910
United States Pauline Betz1943 Tri-State tournament, Cincinnati, OhioFUnited States Catherine Wolf6–0, 6–21943
United States Bill Scanlon1983 Delray Beach WCT1RBrazil Marcos Hocevar6–2, 6–022 Feb 1983Recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Denmark Tine Scheuer-Larsen1995 Fed Cup Europe/Africa ZoneRRBotswana Mmaphala Letsatle6–0, 6–09 May 1995
Kazakhstan Yaroslava Shvedova2012 Wimbledon Championships3RItaly Sara Errani6–0, 6–430 Jun 2012Only golden set in main draw of a Major.
Germany Julian Reister2013 US Open qualifyingQ2Germany Tim Pütz6–7(3–7), 6–4, 6–020 Aug 2013Only golden set in third set.
Italy Stefano Napolitano2015 Distal & ITR Group Tennis Cup qualifyingQ2Italy Augusto Virgili6–0, 6–37 Jul 2015
Ukraine Katarina Zavatska2015 Chang ITF Pro Circuit – Bangkok $25,000 qualifyingQ2Thailand Thanyathorn Putthaun6–0, 6–012 Dec 2015
China He Yecong2016 Qingdao ATP Challenger qualifyingQ2China Wang Honghan6–0, 6–07 Aug 2016
France Benjamin Tullou2016 France F17 Futures qualifying, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, FranceQ1Czech Republic Tomáš Fabián6–0, 6–03 Sep 2016Golden match.
France Joffrey de Schepper2016 France F23 Futures qualifying, Rodez, FranceQ1Czech Republic Tomáš Fabián6–0, 6–015 Oct 2016Amateur opponent. Fabián won one point, avoiding another golden match against him.
Venezuela Luis David Martínez2017 Morelos Open qualifyingQ1Mexico Manfred Brandes Vogt6–1, 6–018 Feb 2017
France Dan Added2018 France F5 Futures qualifying, Poitiers, FranceQ2France Freddy Prioton6–0, 6–011 Mar 2018Golden match.
Thailand Krittin Koaykul2019 Doha M15 qualifying, Doha, QatarQ1Ukraine Artem Bahmet6–0, 6–08 Dec 2019Golden match.
United States Jessie Aney2021 W60 San Bartolomé de Tirajana qualifying, SpainQ1France Heranne Excellent6–0, 6–015 Aug 2021In the first set.
Anastasia Sysoeva2022 W25 Naples, Florida qualifying, USAQ2China Fenni Lian6–0, 6–017 May 2022In the second set.
Germany Emily Seibold2024 W15 Krško main draw, Slovenia1RCzech Republic Denise Hrdinkova6–3, 6–016 Jul 2024

Real tennis

The sport of real tennis, as the ancestor to lawn tennis, has the same scoring system of six-game sets, making it possible to hit a golden set by winning all 24 points.

PlayerEventRoundOpponentFinal scoreDateNotes
United Kingdom Claire Fahey United Kingdom Tara Lumley2026 US Open, BostonQFUnited States Kathy Minevitz United States Julia Knowlton6–0, 6–07 March 2026In the first set